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—Professor Robert Sterling’s Scholar’s Book Co. (Box 3344, Law rence, Kansas 66044) has 14 reprint titles available. Among the selections are Hatfield’s Accounting (1927), Paton’s Accounting Theory (1922) and Sprague’s Philosophy of Accounts (1907). Write for a list of titles and prices. Quantity discounts available.

—T. S. Kuhn, The Theory of Scientific Revolutions, contains a pro posal for the role of the historian, pp 43ff. in the explication of scientific advance. (University of Chicago Press, 2nd Edition, 1969), $1.75 paperback.

—N. Dopuch and L. Revsine, Accounting Research 1960-1970: A Critical Evaluation, (Center for International Education and Re search), University of Illinois, Urbana, III. 61801.

—Roderick Floud, An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for His torians, (Princeton University Press, 1973), Princeton, N.J. 08540.

—Robert W. Lovett, American Economic and Business History In formation Sources, (Management Information Guide #23, Gale Research Co., Book Tower, Detroit, Mich.)

—R. J. Shafer, A Guide to Historical Method, (Dorsey Press, 1969).

—Jonathan Levine, ed., Historical Methods Newsletter, (Quarterly, Dept. of History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, $5 per annum).
(Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 3, 1974)

—The Modern Researcher, (Rev.) Jacques Barzun and Henry G. Graff, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970, 430 pp.

—Medieval Trade and Finance, M. M. Postan, Cambridge: The Uni versity Press, 1973, 382 pp.

—”Some Uses of Biography,” The Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter, August, 1973.
(Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 4, 1974)

—Redovisningens Utvecklings Historia Fran Bildskrift till dator, (The Development of Accounting from the Hieroglyphs to the Com puter), Axel Grandell, Abo: Finland, 1972, 121 pp.

—”Mises and Fisher on Theory and History,” William H. Peterson, The Freeman, June, 1974.

—Cost Terminology and Cost Theory: A Study of its Development and Present State in Central Europe, H. M. Schoenfeld, University of Illinois, 1974.
—The Historian and the Computer: A Practical Guide, E. Shorter, Prentice-Hall, 1971, 149 pp.

—The March,1974 issue of Kaikei (Accounting) published in Japan contains eight full length scholarly articles commemorating the centenary of the adoption of Western bookkeeping in Japan.

—American Intellectual Histories and Historians, Robt. E. Skotheim, Princeton University Press, 1966, 326 pp.

—Partnership and Profit in Medieval Islam, Abraham L. Udovitch, Princeton University Press, 1970, 282 pp.

—Securities Regulations and the New Deal, M. E. Parrish, Yale Press, 1970, 270 pp.

—History and American Society (The Essays of David Potter), D. E. Fehrenbacher, (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1973.

—Florentine Public Finance in the Early Renaissance 1400-33, An thony Molho, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

—”The Past-Tutor and Jailor,” Niall Lothian, The Accountant’s Mag-azine (Scotland), January, 1973.
(Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 3, 1974)

-Theories of History, Patrick Gardiner, ed., Oxford University, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1959.

-An Analysis of Development and Nature of Accounting Principles in Japan, Yukio Fujita, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, 1968.

-“The Rise of Economics as an Academic Discipline,” by J. P. Par rish, July, 1967, Southern Economic Journal.

—The Effect of Scientific Management on the Development of the Standard Cost System, Marc Jay Epstein, Ph.D. dissertation, Uni versity of Oregon, 1973.

—The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution, by Brian Bricegirdle with Brian Bowers and others, Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1973.

-America, by Alistair Cooke, reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, by Edmund Fuller, December 19, 1973.

-The Monetary History of the Caribbean during the 16th Century, Alfred G. Humphries, Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Mexico, 1973.

-Implications of John Dewey’s Philosophy of History for a Theory of Teaching History, G. C. Stone, Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 1973.

-“Lest We Forget-Lest We Forget!” X. Bender Tansill, a study of pioneers of U.S. Accounting available through the library of AICPA, New York.

-The fall, 1974 issue of History of Political Economy, includes three articles of interest:
:”Value in the History of Economic Thought,” by Ronald Meek. :”The History of Economic Thought as Intellectual History,” by
W. J. Samuels.
:”The Historical Developments of Industrial Organizations,” by A. Phillips and R. E. Stevenson.

-A Computer-Based Catalogue of Selected pre-1900 Accounting Texts according to National Union Catalogue Location and Author Surname (A-D), Research Grants Committee, The University of Alabama, Gary John Previts, Director, Project #823.

-Documenti per la storia economica dei secoli XIIl-XIV, con una nota di Paleografa Commercial e cura di Elena Cecchi, Federigo Melis, Florence: Leo Olschki, 1972, 628 pp. Contains documents drawn up exclusively by businesses and closely reflects the in-ternal life and movement of business over four centuries. A re-view of this work by Giovanni Vigo, University of Pavia, appears in The Economic History Review, February, 1974.

-The Science Game, N. McK. Agnew and S. W. Pyke, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, lnc., 1969, 188 pp.

-The 1971 Winter and Spring issues of Daedilus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) contain over twenty articles on the topics of “The Historian and the World of the Twentieth Century” and “Historical Studies Today.” Authors in-clude Kuhn, Habakkuk, Stone and Finley.

—An exhibition catalogue of various types of accounting works in the German language, consisting of 138 titles of interest to ac-counting historians, is available from Vervand de Wirtschaftspru-fer, Dusseldorf, (Zur Geschichfe der Rechnungschegung im en-geren deufschspachigen Raum), Hermann Kellenbenz, June-July, 1971, 40 pp.

(Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 4, 1974)